SOLVED - Quadro P620 on Fedora 34

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Hello all,

A few weeks ago I’ve got a replacement laptop of my T14 AMD gen 1 from Lenovo. They sent me a brand new P15v with an Intel Xeon W-10855M cpu, 32 GB of DDR4 and a dedicated NVIDIA Quadro P620 GPU. The computer is totally different to the one I bought originally, having a massive (and really good looking) 4k HDR Dolby Vision display, very heavy and noisy. However, gaming performance is definitely better compared to the T14 and I am starting to like this new computer. I decided to install Fedora 34 as my main OS since Windows is consuming a lot more energy compared to Fedora, which was causing the fans to rampout very frequently. The newer Fedora release is very stable on this computer, can’t complain, but I’m having a small issue. I don’t know how to install the proprietary NVIDIA driver for this GPU. I followed this guide:

Fedora Fusion: NVIDIA Installation

However, the NVIDIA gpu is not showing up on Gnome’s About section.

Anyone has experience with Quadro GPU on Fedora?

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I’m really sorry if I’m not explaining myself clearly. I’m back to Linux after a couple of years of running Windows exclusively and I’m kinda lost on GPU driver installation.

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Ok, so I was able to resolve the issue. I was getting an error during boot stating that the nvidia kernel drivers where missing, so it falled back to the nouveau drivers. I removed all the nvidia packages that where installed on my Fedora, rebooted and then retried the RPM Fusion guide. That solved the problem.